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"sense": "broadcasting or transmitting",
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"text": "Don't interrupt while the program is on air."
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"text": "This show isn't on air at the moment — it's only on in the summer."
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"text": "The popular television series was on air for ten years before it finally ended."
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"text": "Was his interview on air?"
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"ref": "2020, Mike Carlton, On Air, page 56",
"text": "Taken a bit in drink one evening, and live on air, Davey got into terrible trouble by varying his standard opening words with the memorable line\" when roses are red, they're ready to pluck; when girls are sixteen, they're ready to...",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"text": "Julie is on air now, presenting the weather forecast."
},
{
"text": "Channel 9 will be on air in a few minutes, giving a live broadcast."
},
{
"text": "The transmitter remained on air all through the war."
},
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},
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},
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},
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"word": "عَلَى الْمُبَاشِرِ"
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"word": "lähetys käynnissä"
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"word": "no aire"
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"word": "auf Sendung"
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"roman": "ba'avir",
"sense": "broadcasting or transmitting",
"word": "באוויר"
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"code": "is",
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"sense": "broadcasting or transmitting",
"word": "þetta er"
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"word": "in onda"
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"word": "オンエアーの"
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"sense": "broadcasting or transmitting",
"word": "na antenie"
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"word": "no ar"
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"roman": "v efíre",
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"word": "в эфи́ре"
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"word": "بَراہِ راسْت"
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